Feng Zhixuan was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang in 1993.
He obtained a bachelor’s degree from the China Academy of Fine Arts,and a master’s degree from the Sculpture Department of the Royal Academy of Arts.
becoming a member of the Royal Sculpture Association. I currently live and work in Shanghai and Beijing.
Artist Feng Zhixuan’s rich and colorful life and artistic experiences constantly inspire inspiration. His works use materials hidden in daily plots to carry out historical actions and evoke cultural resonance.
Cultural elements emerge from highly personalized material forms, transforming into historical and improvisational narratives.
Creating a nomadic archipelago civilization that transcends a single period and specific location.
His sculpture installations always exhibit tension, dynamically blending elements of mythology, decoration, exploration, and spatial imagination.
For him, materials are the glue of culture and the result of his outdated self-examination.
Each of his works is filled with traces of resistance against contemporary urban environments and inhumane production.
Constantly creating a vertically structured experience through creation and nomadic exhibitions. While collecting relics from the ruins of the hot spring industry, he cultivates an ecosystem of human imagination.
Feng Zhixuan and Materials
Feng Zhixuan’s artistic works are renowned for his unique exploration and creative use of materials. It proficiently uses various contemporary materials, such as aluminum frames, flame-retardant polyurethane insulators for refrigerators, etc.
To create works of art full of mythological and exotic colors.
His works not only reflect a profound understanding of materials, but also unique insights into the era of global localization.
For Feng Zhixuan’s creative techniques, he is full of immediacy and arbitrariness.
He is not obsessed with the concept of uniqueness.
But constantly promotes a new craft, discovers a new material, and seeks a new creative path. In order to break free from the control of singularity, he decided to travel and create like a nomadic people.
Walking Feng Zhixuan
He started from the land in his hometown Wenzhou, where the guided wave blocks used by fishermen for fishing gave him inspiration for his creations.
He stepped onto the edge of the mainstream perspective, touching on the structure of Panamanian civilization and indigenous peoples in the Americas; He traversed the ravages of epidemics and slow social states, which brought him contemplation of the tense relationship between humans and nature.
This nomadic journey of life represents the complexity and diversity of Feng Zhixuan’s works, and also lays the foundation for his continuous attention to the present, expansion of his field, and contemporary artistic concepts.
In Whitman’s poetry, poets stack different objects together and create subtle connections between them, which Feng Zhixuan also practiced in his creations.
You can hear it in the artist’s studio, where there are many small experiments. Feng Zhixuan also collected many small materials and sculptures. His way of working is to constantly advance a new process or discover a new material, a new creative method. Feng Zhixuan is doing such work every day, and these achievements will be scattered in the artist’s studio.
He said that if he had to present a work, he would put them together and mix different materials together. I hope to generate some new things in the process of change, or remove the original functions of materials, and then manually intervene in some self feelings related to the artist himself, or the artist’s feelings in his original editing line or mechanization process.
As for the selection of materials, Feng Zhixuan likes the irreplaceability of materials. He believes that there must be cultural attributes behind the materials, and also believes that this cultural attribute is the strongest.
Therefore, the tension in his sculpture installation also stems from his own strength, which constantly permeates into wealth.
He likes to dynamically integrate elements such as mythology, decoration, exploration, and spatial imagination, presenting a nomadic archipelago civilization that transcends a single period and specific location. This civilization is vividly reflected in his works, and the audience also feels the fusion and collision of globalization and localization.
Feng Zhixuan’s Exhibition
Feng Zhixuan’s works have been exhibited multiple times in large-scale exhibitions both domestically and internationally, such as “Rotant Palace” and “Northern Landscape” solo exhibitions, as well as in collective exhibitions such as “Illusion” and “Otto Immortal Goes to the Sea”. His works have also participated in international art exhibitions, such as the German exhibition “A truck parked on the grass next to two trees”, further expanding his international influence.
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Feng Zhixuan | Artist nominated for the 8th Tomorrow Sculpture Award